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Flooring Professionals To The Leisure Industry
Courtship Flooring is a commercial sports flooring contractor working in Swansea and across the UK. We have delivered sports hall refurbishments across Wales and plan Welsh projects as complete programmes.
Nearly four decades of specialist work sits behind every project: installation, refurbishment, sanding and sealing, court marking, slip testing and planned maintenance, all delivered in-house. Our clients are institutions and operators rather than households, and private homes are handled by Ryan’s Restorations.
Overnight/Weekend Installations
Professional Cleaning Demonstrations
Squash Court Maintenance
Recommended Cleaning Products
Professional Pendulum Slip Testing
Deep Clean & Reseal Service
The sequence is fixed and skipping stages is where results go wrong. Survey and moisture readings, dust-controlled sanding to clean timber, matched board repairs, fine sanding to an even surface.
Then seal in the correct number of coats with proper curing, markings laid between coats so they sit within the finish, and a documented handover stating exactly when the floor takes traffic, equipment and full play.
Halls here typically carry netball, basketball, badminton, futsal and five-a-side markings simultaneously, and legibility depends on planning rather than paint.
We establish which sport leads, mark it so it reads instantly, then work the others in behind using colour and line weight. Each court follows its current governing body specification, and crests can be sealed beneath the final coats.
School and club calendars are fixed well in advance and cannot move for a contractor. The programme therefore has to fit the gaps rather than the reverse.
We work holidays, quiet weeks, overnight shifts and weekends, phase larger projects so part of the space stays usable, and confirm the reopening date in writing before anything begins.
The main sports hall at Liskeard Leisure Centre had taken years of public sessions, club blocks and league nights. We delivered a complete programme of sanding, re-lining and resealing, returning the hall to service looking like a new installation.
It is a fair illustration of how we handle leisure work: one tight programme, agreed dates, and a centre back in action on schedule.
~ Matthew Evans
An outstanding company to deal with and they couldn’t have been better to work with. St George’s Ascot now has a stunning new sports hall floor and we are delighted. From quote, support, delivery and after sales, the Team has been brilliant. Thank you. 
~ James Anderson
The question we are asked most is when the floor can be used again, and the honest answer is that it depends on the system, which is why we put it in writing rather than giving a rule of thumb.
As a general guide, light foot traffic is possible around twenty four hours after the final coat. Full use, with equipment wheeled back and posts refitted, is usually seventy two hours. Some systems are faster and some are slower, and cold or humid conditions extend both.
Walking on a floor too early is the single most common cause of a job needing touching up, and it is entirely avoidable. Footprints in a curing seal do not polish out. Nor do the marks left by equipment put back a day early.
So we agree access arrangements before we start, we sign the room, and where necessary we arrange for it to be locked. It is not us being difficult. It is the difference between a floor that hands over properly and one that needs us back.
Colour is the part of a marking scheme most often decided badly, because it is chosen on a paint chart in an office rather than on the floor under the hall lights.
Most halls have been refitted with LED lighting in the last decade, and LEDs render colour very differently from the fluorescent tubes they replaced. Two shades that look clearly distinct on a sample card can merge almost completely under the actual lighting, which is how halls end up with markings nobody can follow.
So we bring samples and look at them in the room, with the lights on, before anything is ordered. It takes ten minutes and it prevents the most common complaint we hear about other contractors work.
The second consideration is the floor itself. A pale maple floor takes different colours from a mid tone vinyl or a dark polyurethane, and a scheme designed for one will not necessarily read on the other. Where a hall is being recoloured as well as remarked, the two decisions have to be made together.
Timber remains the benchmark for indoor sports flooring, and the reason is simple: it performs well, it can be refinished repeatedly rather than replaced, and players prefer it.
The systems divide by what sits beneath the boards. A sprung floor uses resilient pads, foam blocks or engineered cradles under battens, producing an area elastic response that spreads load when a player lands. A semi sprung system uses a shallower build up. A floor fixed directly to the slab has no give at all and is hard on joints where sport is played regularly.
Above that, the playing surface is solid strip or engineered board. Maple is the traditional choice for its hardness and pale colour, with beech and oak also common. Solid strip has a generous wear layer and will take many refinishes. Engineered board has a thinner layer over a stable core, so there is less margin.
The detail that governs longevity is the perimeter. Timber moves with humidity, and a floor without a proper expansion gap and ventilated skirting will lift in the middle. It is skipped surprisingly often.
Not every sports floor is timber, and the synthetic surfaces have a genuine place rather than being a cheap alternative.
Point elastic vinyl systems deflect where they are loaded rather than across an area, which makes them forgiving underfoot and well suited to halls with a very mixed timetable. They need no refinishing, they clean easily, and they come in a range of colours that lets a hall be designed rather than simply floored. They have a finite life and are replaced rather than restored when it ends.
Linoleum is the older relation, still found in a great many school halls, and it can often be deep cleaned and resealed rather than replaced.
Polyurethane and modified epoxy systems are seamless, poured or applied as coatings, and are particularly useful over Granwood and cementitious substrates. They can be fully recoated in a new colour with fresh markings, which turns a tired hall into a refurbished one without touching what is underneath.
We work across all of them, and we will tell you honestly when your existing surface is worth keeping.
Swansea work comes to us from university sport, council leisure facilities, secondary school halls and a number of club and community buildings.
University and college facilities are busy year round, with summer conference and external hire filling what would otherwise be a shutdown, so the working windows are narrow and fixed. Those projects are planned months ahead and staffed to complete inside them.
Leisure centres follow, where booking income makes long closures expensive. Most of that work happens overnight, with the floor sealed at the end of a shift so it is walkable by opening time.
School and academy halls follow the fixed term calendar, and the recurring issue is halls that have gone a decade or more without a proper refinish.
Community and church halls make up the rest, and those old timber floors usually have plenty of depth left under the polish.
We are regularly in South Wales, so travel here is routine, and sequencing several projects into one trip brings the cost down for everybody involved.
Swansea enquiries tend to fall into three recognisable groups.
University and college halls are heavily used and usually structurally sound, so the question is timing rather than diagnosis. Catching those on a screen and recoat cycle before the seal goes through preserves the boards and costs a fraction of a full refinish.
Leisure centre halls more often arrive with a specific complaint. Slipperiness is the most common, and the cause is nearly always polish build up or a seal worn smooth in the busiest routes.
School halls typically present with markings and wear together, because both become obvious at the same time. Doing them in a single holiday visit is considerably cheaper than treating them as separate jobs, and it is the moment to remove redundant sports lines that have accumulated over the years.
Relining is the natural moment to add the things that make a hall look like yours rather than institutional, because the setting out is being done anyway.
A school crest or club badge at centre court is one of the few changes that genuinely lifts a room for a modest cost. It is painted from your own artwork between coats of seal, so it sits under the final lacquer and wears at the same rate as the floor around it. Anything applied over a finished floor scuffs and peels within a season, whatever the supplier claims.
Colouring the key or a zone works the same way and has the same effect. A filled key in a contrasting colour makes a court read instantly and looks designed rather than accidental.
We scale the artwork properly to the circle or area it is going into and show you a layout before anything goes down, with colours matched to your own brand rather than approximated from a chart.
Three things drive the figure: hall size, the amount of preparation the existing surface needs, and whether the sub-floor requires attention. All three are established at survey, after which the quotation is fixed. We do not price from a distance and then revise once work starts.
We cover the entire area and beyond. Our projects have taken us across the UK and internationally, and the planning method is the same wherever the building happens to be.
Full sports halls, multi-court leisure facilities, specialist court installations and whole-estate programmes. If you are unsure whether your project fits, call and we will tell you straight away rather than wasting your time.
Yes. Overnight shifts, weekend blocks, phased sections and holiday programmes are all standard. We agree which sessions are affected before anything is booked out.
Compressed wood-composite blocks laid in a brick-like pattern, common in halls built from the 1950s to the 1980s. It cannot be sanded like timber and needs a specialist coating system instead.
Yes. We survey, take moisture readings, measure the remaining board depth and look at the structure, then quote a fixed sum broken down by element. There is no charge and no obligation.
Light foot traffic is normally possible around twenty four hours after the final coat, and full use with equipment back at seventy two hours. We confirm exact times for the system used, because they vary.
Constantly. Summer holidays and half terms are when most of our school work happens, and summer slots book up early. If you are planning for next year it is worth speaking to us in January rather than June.
A light abrasion of the existing finish followed by a fresh top coat. It restores grip and appearance at a fraction of the cost of a full sand, and it works whenever the seal is worn but still intact.
Yes. Logos are painted from your own artwork between coats of seal so they wear with the floor rather than scuffing off. It costs least while the floor is already open for a refinish.
Yes. On timber the reliable method is sanding, which removes them completely. Most halls carry markings for at least one sport nobody plays, and taking them off is the cheapest improvement available.
Book a free survey of your floor in Swansea and we will tell you honestly what it needs, what it will cost and how quickly it can happen. Call 01823 674562 or send us a message.